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Documentation/HOWTO: update information about generating documentation

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The description there are pre-Sphinx. Update it to cover the
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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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apply it to the different development branches of the kernel.
The kernel also has a large number of documents that can be
automatically generated from the source code itself. This includes a
automatically generated from the source code itself or from
ReStructuredText markups (ReST), like this one. This includes a
full description of the in-kernel API, and rules on how to handle
locking properly. The documents will be created in the
Documentation/DocBook/ directory and can be generated as PDF,
Postscript, HTML, and man pages by running:
locking properly.
All such documents can be generated as PDF or HTML by running:
::
make pdfdocs
make psdocs
make htmldocs
make mandocs
respectively from the main kernel source directory.
The documents that uses ReST markup will be generated at Documentation/output.
They can also be generated on LaTeX and ePub formats with:
::
make latexdocs
make epubdocs
Currently, there are some documents written on DocBook that are in
the process of conversion to ReST. Such documents will be created in the
Documentation/DocBook/ directory and can be generated also as
Postscript or man pages by running:
::
make psdocs
make mandocs
Becoming A Kernel Developer
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